``Factories will build the housing and people will build the town...''
Karadzic said, citing an old Communist mantra.

``We have requested from the international community to get clear very
quickly on whether our understanding of Serb rights is correct or not...
If they are not, we have already told them to give us 45,000 tents and
45,000 containers, and we will get our people on the move from Sarajevo
immediately...'' nationalist Bosnian Serb R. Karadzic (also indicted for
war crimes)

- ``If all the Bosnian Serb children know his car, NATO must know it,
too...'' Milutin Drazic, a Bosnian Serb

"OUR BOSNIA" - SILAJDZIC'S NEW PARTY

Sarajevo, Feb. 23,1996 (Press TWRA) - The former B-H Prime
Minister H. Silajdzic will form a new party called "Our Bosnia".
Our correspondent reported that Silajdzic gathered around himself
former associates and ministers of Republic Government, and young
experts. New party which still does not have complete program is
announced as "pleasant surprise", and Silajdzic's associates say
that this will be party of center. (end) S.K.

Despite the repeated appeals, IFOR has failed to deliver on its promise
to assist the International War Crimes Tribunal in Hague. Travels of
indicted nationalist Bosnian Serb criminals, their appeals for ethnic
purification have been, so far ignored by IFOR. One of the criminals,
Gen. Ratko Mladic, spends most of his time in Han Pijesak compound,
designed in the 1960s as a hideout in case of a Soviet attack. Only about
10 miles north, is the ethnically cleansed town of Vlasenica, where U.S.
soldiers are setting up a major base.

``If all the Bosnian Serb children know his car, NATO must know it, too...
But they are afraid to touch him,'' said Milutin Drazic, a Bosnian Serb
soldier.

``Mladic is firmly in charge,'' Lt. Col. Milan Milutinovic, nationalist
Bosnian Serb military spokesman, said in an interview. ``The Americans
ought to realize this if they want peace in Bosnia.''

Karadzic has come out of seclusion in Pale to make several trips to
Belgrade, and Banja Luka. Even though he is less personally popular
than Mladic, Karadzic has his own personal army of loyal secret police
that has challenged even Mladic's military power.

``Whomever Milosevic picks is considered a traitor among the Bosnian
Serbs,'' said Milos Vasic, an independent columnist.

Mladic maintains strong ties with the Serb-led Yugoslav army, which still
pays his salary, and especially with its chief of staff, Gen. Momcilo
Perisic.

``Our president is our president, our general commander is our general
commander, and whoever talks to the mediators, to IFOR, talks on their
behalf and with their authorization,'' claimed nationalist Bosnian Serb
Nikola Koljevic, formerly seen as potential successor to Karadzic.

FEDERATIONAL POLICE FORCES ENTERED VOGOSCA

Sarajevo, Feb. 23,1996 (Press TWRA) - B-H Federation Police
Forces entered Vogosca this morning, part of Sarajevo which was
under Serbian control during the war. Dayton agreement denoted
that Vogosca, together with another six parts of Sarajevo, has to
fall under B-H Federation control. The arrival of federational
Police Forces passed without incidents, but the well armed units
of Italian IFOR were very visible on the ground. The Federational
police will do regular rounds and take care of public security on
Vogosca territory. "Vogosca mayor" appointed by Serbian
authorities, R. Koprivica, stated that local Serbian civilian
authorities will continue to do their work until March 19, and in
the meantime the moving of Serbs who still live at Vogosca will
continue. The representatives of international police forces
estimate that on the territory of Vogosca there is still between
2OOO-3OOO citizens. (end) S.K.

SERBS WILL CONTINUE CONTACTS WITH IFOR

Sarajevo, Feb. 23,1996 (Press TWRA) - The high representatives of
IFOR and military representatives of Bosnian Serbs are supposed
to meet today at Banja Luka which would mean the continuation of
the normal contacts after 15 days interruption. The meeting is
announced after the headquarters of Bosnian Serbs' troops
announced that the cooperation with IFOR will continue on all
levels, in accordance with Dayton agreement, which was decision
of "Pale parliament". Reuters reported that Serbs also announced
the renewal of relations with B-H Federation.

Washington - Commenting the decision of Bosnian Serbs
"parliament", the US Defence Minister W. Perry stated that he
wants "to see acts not only words". (end) S.K.

FRANCE APPOINTED AMBASSADOR IN BELGRADE

Paris, Feb. 23,1996 (Press TWRA) - Gabriel Keller (48) is a new
appointed French Ambassador in Belgrade. France become the first
member of EC which renewed the diplomatic relations with FR
Yugoslavia, on ambassadorial level. Since 1994, Keller has been
charge de affairs in Belgrade, reported French Foreign Ministry.
The countries members of EC withdrew their ambassadors after the
Security Council adopted sanctions against FRY for helping the
Bosnian Serbs. (end) S.K.

LOUIS ARBOUR NEW HAGUE'S PROSECUTOR

New York, Feb. 23,1996 (Press TWRA) - UN General Secretary Ghali
appointed Canadian Louis Arbour for new Chief Prosecutor of The
Hague's Tribunal. The present Chief Prosecutor R. Goldstone will
return to South Africa to resume his work as judge of
Constitutional Court. L. Arbour is a judge of Ontario Appellation
Court, and in October will take over the new post. (end) S.K.

IZETBEGOVIC'S CONDITION - STABLE

Sarajevo, Feb. 22,1996 (Press TWRA) - Party of Democratic Action
(SDA) spokesman Ismet Grbo told TWRA the medical condition of B-H
President A. Izetbegovic "was stable and there were no reason for
concern". Vice-president of SDA, E. Bicakcic, told B-H Radio that
President Izetbegovic was "out of immediate danger". As TWRA
found out from the doctors circles the cause of present
Izetbegovic's condition is heavy exhaustion due to Rome meeting
where the negotiation lasted for more than 48 hours. (end) S.K.

"SERBS WILL HAVE TO MOVE ONCE AGAIN"

Sarajevo, Feb. 22,1996 (Press TWRA) - The B-H Presidency stated
in a press release that "until recently Pale authorities directed
Bosnian Serbs to Bratunac and Srebrenica, and two days ago they
have started to direct them to Brcko, status of which still has
not been denoted. This is the attempt to prevent the return of
Bosniaks and Croats to parts of B-H which were given to Serbian
entity". The B-H Presidency warned Serbs who are leaving suburbs
of Sarajevo that they would "have to move once again because the
Dayton agreement guarantees everyone the right to return to their
houses". In a last few days Pale media announced that Bosniak and
Croat property will be declared permanently abandoned and will be
given to expelled Serbs. Bildt's office issued a proclamation to
Serb population, guaranteeing all rights to Serbs if they stay on
the areas under B-H Federation control. This includes the right
to remain in present flats and houses regardless of whether they
are legal tenants or they moved in during the war. In the same
time, Sarajevo's mayor Kupusovic demanded from IFOR Commander to
prevent the sabotages on objects of vital importance for the city
because there is a fear that Serbs will try to place explosive in
such objects before Federal Police Force takes them over.

Pale - "Bosnian Serbs Parliament" rejected yesterday on Pale
international community's accusations that Serb leaders advocate
through media campaign mass moving of Sarajevo's Serbs. The press
release said it was left "to each individual to decide whether he
will stay or leave". The "parliament" expressed its understanding
"for justified concern of Serbian population who do not want to
live under Croat-Muslim Federation Government". (end) S.K.

"ALMOST ALL SERBS WILL LEAVE VOGOSCA", CLAIMS PRLIC

Sarajevo, Feb. 22,1996 (Press TWRA) - "Our estimates are that
almost all Serbs will leave Vogosca due to commands they received
from Pale", stated B-H Foreign Minister J. Prlic. "Situation on
the territory of Vogosca is very tense. Federal police will take
over the control tomorrow", stated K. Janowski, UNHCR spokesman
adding that "Serbs who are leaving, openly threat their
compatriots and even burn down their houses. The roads which
connect Vogosca with Ilidza and Pale since this morning have been
crowded with colons of vehicle. The UNHCR spokesman warned that
this humanitarian organization "will not help the moving of
people because that is a clinical political manipulation and
UNHCR does not want to be part of that game". (end) S.K.

HOLBROOKE ON MILITARY CAMPS IN B-H

Washington, Feb. 22,1996 (Press TWRA) - "NATO has knowledge of
several places which are similar to terrorist camps which IFOR
discovered last week and IFOR soldiers will raid them if they
are not dismissed in near future", stated US peace mediator R.
Holbrooke in interview for Reuters. Holbrooke stated that he had
very serious talks on that issue with President Izetbegovic.
Holbrooke emphasized that he was not sure how much Izetbegovic
knows about the other camps, but that he promised he will do all
in his power to shut them down. R. Holbrooke continue his carrier
as vice-president of First Investment Bank in Boston. (end) S.K.

SMITH ON LIFTING OF SANCTIONS

Sarajevo, Feb. 22,1996 (Press TWRA) - The IFOR Commander in B-H
admiral L. Smith demanded from Security Council to postpone the
discussion on lifting of sanctions against Bosnian Serbs for 48
hours. As IFOR Chief of Staff Gen. W. Carter stated IFOR expects
official confirmation from Bosnian Serbs that they would
cooperate in the work of joint military and civil commissions for
implementation of peace plan. (end) S.K

IFOR DISCOVERED SERBIAN BUNKER FULL OF ARMS

Sarajevo, Feb. 22,1996 (Press TWRA) - IFOR soldiers yesterday
discovered a Bosnian Serbs bunker near Brcko with five armed
bosnian Serbs, reported IFOR headquarters in Sarajevo. All arms
will be seized, and bunker will be destroyed during the day. IFOR
also seized from Bosnian Serbs two registered mine-launchers on
the territory of north Bosnia which were directed toward one NATO
basses in that part of B-H. It was qualified as "immediate
threat". During this week IFOR also seized large amount of arms
from Serbs near Ilijas. Near Modrica IFOR forced Serbian armed
brigade to withdraw from the positions which they could not hold
any longer according to Dayton Agreement. (end) S.K.

REACHED AGREEMENT ON B-H - CROATIA BORDER

Sarajevo, Feb. 22,1996 (Press TWRA) - IFOR spokesman in Sarajevo
M. Rainer stated that on yesterday's meeting at Coralici place in
Western Bosnia, between representatives of IFOR and Croatian
border police, was solved the problem of five problematic points
on the border between B-H and Croatia in accordance with Dayton's
maps. Based on this agreement the meeting between representatives
of B-H and Croatia in order to solve the minor problematic points
on the border, is expected soon. (end) S.K.

KOSCHNIK WILL STAY IN MOSTAR

Mostar, Feb. 22,1996 (Press TWRA) - H. Koschnik whose duty as the
EU Administrator over Mostar ends the end of June, will stay on
the post until the end of the year. "Croats and Muslims asked for
this mission to be prolonged for six months. I agreed", Koschnik
said. He announced that on the meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in
Brussels on Monday he will demand "more money and police" in
order to make his mission in Mostar successful. (end) S.K.

The driving force behind this strip cartoon, where the very
content goes beyond a mere picture book for entertainment, is indignation.
More and more indignation. It tells of the drama experienced by a close
friend of Hermann, the author and the instigator.

Held in Sarajevo with his wife and their two children from the
start of hostilities, they have been trapped there for 18 months. This
friend is Ervin Rustemagic, a publishing agent.

During these 18 months, he has been able to communicate with
Hermann, mainly by fax. The messages are often barely legible because of
the unstable electricity supply, when the transmissions were not
interrupted by power cuts.

What can be done to help Ervin? How can he and his family be
spared the madness of the carnage of Sarajevo? It is a question of life
and death. It haunted his thoughts, night and day.

At the same time, he discovers the merciless steam roller of human
stupidity, denying intelligence, knowing no compassion, crushing victims
in Sarajevo, just as millions of others all over the world, whose only
fault it is to be born and live in the wrong part of the planet and in our
time.

As Hermann went through more and more official (and unofficial)
procedures to extricate Ervin Rustemagic and his family from their prison,
he generally encountered polite interest or blatant indifference, and when
formal promises were made, but not kept, his anger began to rise and
ferment.

Compared with the news broadcast by the media, the real day-to-day
situation from a reliable source in the heart of the besieged city only
served to strengthen his sense of urgency and feelings of impotence. And
anger.

Empty words, vain promises; betrayal of commitments, the attitude
at the highest levels of the United Nations and among Western heads of
state or their representatives can do nothing to hide the policy of
"saying nothing and letting them get on with it". Important people - at
least in name - close to home were informed and contacted. They made
promises, forgot, and turned a deaf ear.

Hermann sent urgent requests to for invention to help Ervin
Rustemagic and his family all over the world, but without success.
Requests which were usually not treated with the simple honesty or
courtesy of a reply, even if it had to be negative.

And while people were dying in Sarajevo every day live on our
television screens, between chat shows and football matches, the attention
of the general public was ebbing away. Widespread indifference had taken
over.

Hermann has the good fortune to be able to give shape to his
indignation and anger through writing and drawing. His voice, his weapons,
are words and pictures. Ervin and his family have been safe since
September 1993, safe at last! Hermann decides not to pass on the story of
his friend or an account of their shared disillusionment, but to
communicate the disappointment and fury which have never ceased raging
within him.

A huge outpouring.

A catharsis.

This is the story of "Sarajevo-Tango".

* The Story

It takes place in Sarajevo. In exchange for a large amount of
money, Zvonko Duprez, a former legionnaire now working as a mercenary,
attempts to bring a young girl back to her mother in Switzerland.

For odious reasons relating to his inheritance, the wealthy lady's
second husband does not want the rescue operation to succeed, and sets a
hired assassin on the trail of Duprez.

A tale of adventure unfolds amid the exploding shells and the
anonymous and deadly snipers'bullets, against the background of the
icy-cold winter and the lack of food and medicines.

This is a case of reality going beyond the realms of fiction.

Sarajevo is here and now. This is the setting for Sarajevo-Tango.There is
not much room for sob-stories here, that would be underestimating Hermann.
The kid is a real pain, and Duprez only goes to Sarajevo for the money,
not out of any noble feelings.

If he carries out his job with cautiousness, boldness and the
cynicism and apparent nonchalance of a hardened professional, the idea
does come to mind that Hermann may have put something of himself into the
character. And in the darkest hours of despair, might he not have
contemplated going to extricate his friend with his family from the trap
in which they were entangled?

This is not far removed from the stuff of revolutionary pamphlets
or diatribe.

The violence of these feelings, fed by months of anxiety,
disappointment, powerlessness and stifled rage certainly play an important
role in the narrative.

Hermann does not launch an all-out attack. His purpose is to
expose the liars who refuse even to admit that there is a problem. His
concern is to use the fury of his pencil to pinpoint the real culprits of
the failure to offer succour to people in danger, who thus become
accessories to murder.

The artist caricatures the senior officials of the United Nations
with acerbic irony, showing each of them comfortably housed in a huge
block of cheese, in which each has carved out his own hole. This is
intended to represent the famous steel and glass building on the bank of
the East River in New York.

As for the blue berets in UNPROFOR, caught between the devil and
the deep blue sea in a real-life mission impossible, literally paralysed
by the eternal evasiveness and subterfuges of the decision-makers, Hermann
gives them distinctly Smurf-like berets, a symbol of his impression of the
pointlessness of the token interventions by the UN in the war-torn former
Yugoslavia.

* About the author

Hermann is one of the most renowned comic strip authors in Europe.

Over the last thirty years, his books have been read by countless
thousands of readers, translated into many different languages and
published worldwide.He has often condemned injustice, the folly of
mankind, the unquenchable thirst for power.

This is the case in the "Jeremiah" series, in which most of the
eighteen titles deal with the thirst for power and the abuses this
engenders. You can also read other works by Hermann about the hidden
control exerted by certain powers over the politics of some countries in
Missi Vandisandi.

There is no lack of subjects, with the entire planet rocked by
armed conflict. There is bloodshed everywhere, crimes go unpunished,
assassins and their accomplices can arrogantly sit untroubled alongside
those in power. The words "ethnic cleansing" and all the horror they
convey have become banal to the point of nausea.

Hermann expresses and condemns this in all its forms in his work
which already includes sixty books.